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A yes, the classic plot device of a cameo character who stumbles on scene, gasps out some mysterious, garbled warning, and dies without explaining.

Ric the Alpha werewolf cop has repeated assualted coworkers. At work, in front of their boss. He tried to kill Thad and broke his arm. There is no sort of disciplinary action and Thad is still sharing an office with him. Wtf?

(Maybe this is how the author sees Americans?)

Wow. So far all the investigators seem extraordinarily incompetent. Like, even more than real cops! And most of them are violent jerks with no self-control. Why is the wimpy and whiny psychic working in this job?

Peoples generally did not trade decorative goods for aesthetic use only: they wanted ones that had a ritual context and also borrowed or bought the ritual as well. For instance, Zuni buy Navajo dances (which are performed in Navajo costume and with songs in Navajo) and Zuni in exchange show Navajo sandpainting motifs which Navajo add to weavings.

Maybe this is a personal issue, but I hate when one characters brings up something they know is traumatic or upsetting for the other while they're in bed about to/in the middle of/just having had sex. I don't mean so much from a reader's perspective, but for the character -- it seems like it would be uncomfortable and ruin the moment for them.

But I see this quite often in romance, so maybe just me?

That was a very abrupt about-face from "as soon as you're fit to walk get out and never come back" to "okay, you can come to my place and watch a movie."

it makes a shape that people take for trauma: difficult to discover, easy as hell to categorize. But nothing’s ever happened to you to make you what you are.

the ill-fitting cozy sweater of their love is no less warm for not being quite your size.

Perhaps, against all odds, you’re successfully passing as a Creative Eccentric. This ought to buy you some leeway.

A new approach, then. A new ingress. Crowbar if not key. It’s time.

Vantablack!

Because writing a story like this and making it free are the opposite personality type from needing to own a color and not let anyone else use it.

Ooh, very Chronicles of Amber.

You’ll keep trying though, lighting the candles in the windows of the once-haunted house of your heart.

you’ve never seen a time loop movie where they found each other and worked together for years and then one of those people got out and left the other one there to die alone, over and over and over.

Not exactly a time loop, but I wonder if the author had read that most depressing of all j fantasies, The Homeward Bounders.

Characters in lucid dreams almost always behave in one of two ways, your library haul and your internet deep-dives unanimously inform you. Either they react blankly to anything you say to them, or they tell you things you already know.

Huh. Peeps, is that how characters in your dreams respond?

sometimes you stand in the bathroom at night, lights off, opening and closing your medicine cabinet, waiting for the jumpscare in the mirror. Whispering to the dark: come out. I double fucking dare you.

Pro: whatever else it is, it is a compass. A lodestar. You’ll never draw an aimless breath in your life.
Con: what the compass points toward, what every cell of you yearns for, is fundamentally unreachable. Meanwhile, the world you were born into will never feel like anything more than a waypoint, a rest stop, a layover. A frictionless surface across which you can only glide.

Last day of the Smashwords sale!
Any recs for books I might not know?

The gift of self-knowledge and self-expression was not determined by heredity.

This approach to the origins of popular psychology makes a lot of sense, in terms of why it appealed to people.

Figures in landscape tend to be monumental and alienated VS small and overwhelmed as in Romantic art.

"Glandular juices" in popular science of the 20s.

There is, perhaps, one duty which falls specially within the province of philosophy, and that is to persuade mankind that human life is worth preserving and that an opposite view is only open to fanatics.
--Bertrand Russell

Just over halfway through the book, it is now a ghost story.
This is very oddly paced.

African stories about hyenas having magic power or being sent by witches to kill children are similar to old European stories of black cats being linked to witches.

Um, it might be good when presenting this to kids to include a disclaimer?!

Hyenas can pull down and kill animals 3x their size.

Hyenas tend to prey on young, old, or diseased animals... by removing the weaker individuals of herds of grazing animals, hyenas allow other herd members to roam free.

Um, wow, that is some weirdly eugenicist phrasing,
Also, since when is being young a health problem? I'm pretty sure the antelope moms are not grateful for being helped to "roam free" by having their babies eaten.

Stamina: hyenas can run up to 30 mph for 3 minutes, or for a long time more slowly.

The author enjoyed some sort of wild root vegetables called "patofa" but never found anyone who knew what they were.

A good marriage is one where both parties feel that they got the better deal.

This "chunky souffle" of eggplant with raisins and pine nuts sounds interesting. You saute then bake it in a cassola to get a brown crust. 3 CUPS of olive oil tho?!